Fresh from her comeback triumph in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, Demi Moore plays Rachel Carlson, an American mystery novelist living in London.
Her life and marriage fall apart when her young son drowns, and she moves to the Highlands of Scotland to write a new bestseller.
Here, she keeps seeing her drowned son and falls for a smiley lighthouse-keeper (Hans Matheson) who may or may not also be dead. That's right: she doesn't just see dead people, she sleeps with them.
Poor old Demi's face can't really register much in the way of emotion these days, and she never has been able to do 'vulnerable'.
This makes Rachel Carlson a character who is hard to root for, and the laughably sinister Scottish locals - I especially enjoyed the two eerie librarians who seemed to move on castors - come straight out of some godforsaken remake of The Wicker Man.
Indeed, this Euro-thriller plunders so much from other movies (notably Don't Look Now, Final Analysis, Gaslight and Vertigo) that, even though it is preposterous from start to finish, I spotted where it was heading around ten minutes in and became increasingly bored during the other 100, waiting for the inevitable to happen.
Half Light
Cert: cert15
